Nationally, home prices were up 5.9% annually to 194.1, yet another new high and an increase from June’s rise of 5.8%, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, which covers all nine U.S. census divisions.

C.A.R.’s Market Velocity Index – home sales relative to the number of new listings coming on line each month to replenish that sold inventory, or market indicator of future price appreciation – indicates that home prices should continue to stay strong as home sales continue to outstrip new listings, putting upward pressure on home prices through the fall.

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Statewide home sales (including single-family homes and condominiums) in August 2017 totaled 16,196 homes sold, down 3.4 percent from 16,771 in August 2016.

The statewide median price in August was $200,456, up 5.0 percent from August 2016, when the median price was $191,000. The median is a typical market price where half the homes sold for more and half sold for less.

Now the first numbers from Black Knight Financial Services are starting to roll in, and according to the report, the hurricane’s impact on mortgages will likely get worse.

While delinquencies nationally remained relatively flat from July, the FEMA-declared disaster areas saw delinquencies jump 16%, from 5.37% before the storm, which made landfall on Aug. 25, to 6.22% by the end of August.

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Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that its seven-floor penthouse, aptly named the “Pinnacle,” is hitting the market with a price tag of $110 million, making it the most expensive downtown sale ever (the current sales record stands at $50.9 million for the penthouse at Chelsea’s Walker Tower).

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A strong labor market and low mortgage rates combined to push home buying demand up, even as low levels of housing inventory hold back progress in sales and increase home prices, according to Ten-X’s Quarterly Residential Market Report for fall 2017.

Sales of new single-family houses in August fell 3.4% from July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 560,000, a 1.2% decline from August 2016, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Existing-homes sales have retreated in four of the past five months, but new survey findings from the National Association of Realtors® indicate it is not because of a lack of confidence from consumers about buying and selling a home, or based on their views about the direction of the economy and their finances.

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At 47 public U.S. colleges it’s more cost effective for a student to buy a condo than rent a dorm room on campus, according to Redfin (www.redfin.com), the next-generation real estate brokerage. Dorm rooms in the U.S. range in cost from $232 to $1,817 per month, with a median monthly rate of $705.

Freddie Mac expects housing starts to increase to 1.33 million in 2018, up from 1.22 million in 2017. In fact, the GSE predicted that new home sales will continue to increase and become the primary driver of home sales next year.

Total existing-home sales1, https://www.nar.realtor/topics/existing-home-sales, which are completed transactions that include single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, retreated 1.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.35 million in August from 5.44 million in July. Last month's sales pace is 0.2 percent above last August, and is the lowest since then.

Florida's housing market continued its positive track in August, with more closed sales, increased pending sales, more new listings and rising median prices, according to the latest housing data released by Florida Realtors®. Sales of single-family homes statewide totaled 25,235 last month, up 0.9 percent compared to August 2016.

This quantitative un-easing could have major consequences to the housing market as nearly 40% of the portfolio is made up of mortgage-backed securities that the Federal Reserve started buying in 2009, according to a blog from Mark Fleming, First American Financial Corp. chief economist.

Additionally, homeowners gained an average of $12,987 in equity between Q2 2016 and Q2 2017. Western states led the equity increase with Washington homeowners gaining an average of approximately $40,000 in home equity and California homeowners gaining an average of approximately $30,000 in home equity (Figure 1). Home price increases in these states drove the equity gains.

Regionally, the strongest season for starter homes in 70 of the top 100 housing markets is between October and December. That leads to listing prices that are about 4.8% and 3.1% lower in the winter and spring than in the summer, respectively.

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